In a shocking incident, a couple was killed after the wife and husband assaulted each other with sharp weapons in their house at Bisrampur village under Seraikela police station area in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district in the wee hours of Tuesday.
In the incident, two minor girls who are the daughters of the couple have sustained grievous injuries on being attacked by the killer father.
The injured children, Anita (5) and Sunita (3), were rushed to the MGM Medical College Hospital by the kin of the murdered couple identified as Rajiv Tiu (42) and wife Budhni (37).
The incident has taken place in the room of Rajiv Tiu's house and all the injured were taken to MGM Medical College Hospital, while the couple, Rajiv and Budhni were declared brought dead.
The police have recovered two blood stained weapons from the house where the incident took place.
OC, Seraikela police station, Naveen Prakash Pandey rushed to Bisrampur village soon after the news reached and started investigation into the circumstances leading to the couple to attack each other with the sharp weapons.
"It is too early to comment however we are of the onion that the man Rajiv Tiu being mentally disturbed had first attacked his wife with a chopper and later started assaulting the children.
Though there was no other eyewitness than the two injured children, it is assumed that on seeing her husband trying to kill the children also, the wife must have attacked him with another weapon," said Pandey.
The OC said the neighbours of the victims had rushed to Tiu's house on hearing the noise. They broke open the door to find both Rajiv and Budhni were lying in a pool of blood beside the two children crying.
"We came to know that the neighbours arranged a vehicle and rushed all the four members of the family to MGM Medical College Hospital, where the husband and wife were declared as brought dead," said the OC.
Amit Tiu, nephew of Rajiv Tiu said his uncle used to work as a labourer, but since the past two months he had become mentally disturbed. " As we heard to noise we rushed to uncle's house and broke open the door.
No one saw who attacked whom first but as the uncle was mentally sick, we assume he must have attacked aunt first and later was killed by the aunt for trying to kill the two children," Amit said.